Khaled Benkrid, manager of the university program at ARM, said the new kit will allow both students and teachers to meet "real world challenges," and by using the same hardware and software platforms that professionals use while learning, students will be able to "fast-track to a rewarding career."

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The company says the kit — tailored for students, teachers, researchers and developers — contains everything required for a full complete embedded systems design and programming curriculum. Expanding upon the ARM Lab-in-a-Box product announced in early 2014, the ARM Embedded Education Kit contains:

The hardware platform that we have created for the ARM Embedded Education Kit series gives students and professionals a quick start in learning, experimenting and prototyping embedded systems. We are supporting this innovative product with additional hardware to enhance the user experience even further, including graphical displays and IoT related communication hardware.

The kit costs less than €20 per student.

Earlier this week, ARM rolled out a new series of Mali graphics processors designed for handling mobile gaming and video with lower power consumption.

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